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The cold, hard truth

Asha Swann

The Yukon is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. It's causing irreversible damage to Indigenous communities

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Movie monopoly

Jake Pitre

Canada's independent theatres, scrappy as ever, still need help

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Illustration of a parked truck at sunset with canola fields surrounding the road.

Butter

Katherine Abbass

She bunched up the top of the bag and set it down between her feet. She would finish it later, alone

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Photo of a man and a woman standing behind a display table.

Let’s talk about sex

Robert Kuang

B.C. group focuses on sexual health for people with disabilities

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All about that ace

Corrie Maurik

How BoJack Horseman helped me come out to my mom

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Creating community care

Kendra Seguin

London, Ontario's chapter of Food Not Bombs reawakens amidst rising homelessness and food insecurity

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A transgender pride flag drawn on the ground in chalk.

Save the children

Natasha Chiam

What progressive Albertans can do in the face of the province's proposed gender policies

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What’s my age again?

Aysha White

A bill meant to stop youth from seeing porn raises serious privacy concerns for all Canadians

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A changing Chinatown

Michael Koy

What do shifting demographics mean for the neighbourhood's long-term identity?

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Night moves

Leina Gabra

Marginalized people are key to nocturnal scenes, but new Montreal policy misses the memo

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No place like home

Dominique Russell

How land trusts build community

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Course correction

Meral Jamal

Indigenous professors are teaching journalism students to build better relationships through immersive learning with First Nations

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Breaking barriers

Shilpashree Jagannathan

A landmark move to combat caste discrimination in Canadian academia

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A collage of rainbow-coloured birds and bees against a black background.

The birds and the UCPs

Aubrianna Snow

Youth see comprehensive sex education as a human right, and they're not giving up

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An illustration of a man casting out a crab trap. A basket of crabs is in the foreground.

An Offering

Sofia Osborne

The crab trap was neon orange. He whipped it like a frisbee, far out, and watched it sink below the dark blue of the sea. It was early and he was the only one on the pier, cold in his camping chair. The old chicken bones he used as bait were stuffed in a plastic […]
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An illustration of six green hands holding scissors or strands of brown hair. In the center of the hair is a closed eye crying tears.

Delilah

Bianca Bernstein

You wake up ready for some self care. You stretch, scrape your tongue. Sit still tracking your breath. You’ve been working hard. You need a dose of freshness. What you need is a haircut, and today’s the day you booked one. How timely. As you sip the froth off your oat milk latte, you imagine […]
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A photo of a hand holding up the inside cover page of Pride and Prejudice. It has been annotated with doodles. A bag full of books is out of focus in the background.

To all the books I’ve loved before

Rita Simonetta

Millennials and Gen Zers hone the art of annotating

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